H2020 LandSense Project First Annual Meeting

The H2020 LandSense project will hold its first annual meeting bringing together the consortium partners to review the project's progress to date.

The consortium members of the LandSense project will meet in early October to review the progress of the project over the past year, and make plans for the upcoming year. The aim of this workshop is to detail the technical plans and citizen engagement activities for the upcoming pilot studies across Europe.

The workshop will be organized into plenary and breakout sessions to maximize overall partner engagement. In addition, the invited LandSense Expert Advisory Board will contribute to an open panel discussion.

Currently within the EU’s Earth Observation monitoring framework, there is a need for low-cost methods for acquiring high quality in-situ data to create accurate and well validated environmental monitoring products.The purpose of the LandSense project is to build a far reaching citizen observatory for Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) monitoring that will also function as a technology innovation marketplace.

New LandSense services will be deployed across various pilots that will address critical LULC issues in the areas of urbanization, agricultural land use and forest/habitat monitoring. Policy-relevant campaigns will be implemented in close collaboration with multiple stakeholders to ensure that citizen observations contribute to EU-wide environmental governance and decision-making.